Cartridge-clip.



No. 787,850. PATENTED APR. 18, 1905.

A. MILLS,

CARTRIDGE CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 13, 1904.

WITNESS J INVENTOR 7/ p -L Mm [9: Altomejl UNITED STATES Patented April 18, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

CARTRIDGE-CLIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 787,850, dated April 18, 1905. Application filed June 13, 1904. Serial No. 212,287.

T 0 (all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ANsoN MILLs, of the United States Army, retired, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Washington city, in the District of Columbia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cartridge-Clips, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cartridgaclips, so called, for use in connection with magazine small-arms, these clips being constructed to hold a group of cartridges and to permit the latter to be pushed out therefrom into the magazine or receiving-chamber of the gun.

The invention is designed to furnish a means for holding the cartridges in the clip securely against accidental displacement and at the same time to permit them to be discharged or pushed out therefrom readily whenever occasion may require, and, further, to avoid any projections or sharp points at the end of the clip which would be apt to become entangled with the belt or bandoleer in which the clip is housed or with the clothing of the user. These objects are attained by a construction which can best be described and understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of a clip made in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a view of the spring detached from the body of the clip. Fig. 4 is an enlarged end view of the clip with the end cartridge in position therein.

The body of the clip is shown at A. It is made of sheet metal and has, as usual, a back a and two longitudinal sides I), provided with internally-projecting ribs 0, which engage under the heads or rims C of the cartridges, which are inserted into the clip between the two sides 6. The ends of the body of the clip are rounded, as at d, thus removing all end angles or projections from the body A which might catch upon or become entangled with the fabric of the belt in which the clip is carried or with the clothing of the user.

The spring is shown at B. It is a platespring of sheet-steel or other suitable spring metal and of such width as to fit in the body of the clip between the back a thereof and the heads of the cartridges. It is secured to the back a of the body A in the usual way and may be of the usual construction save at its ends, where it engages the end cartridges of the group contained in the clip. Each end of the springis rounded to conform substantially to the adjacent rounded end (1 of the body A, and this end on its rounded edge is bent to form an inclined crescent-like flange e, which borders the rounded edge, is deepest or widest at the longitudinal center of the spring, and thence tapers off until it joins and disappears in the side edges of the spring. The contour of this crescent-shaped flange is that of the portion of the rim of the cartridge next to it, and it embraces that rim for about, say, one-third of the circumference thereof, and it constitutes a detent of circumferentially-extended area, which holds the cartridge most securely against accidental displacement. At the same time, as the flange e stands not at right angles, but at an inclination to the face of the spring, hand-pressure upon the cartridge will cause the cartridge to push against the inclined surface of the flange with suflicient force to press back the spring far enough to allow the flange to clear the head of the cartridge, and thus permit the latter to be discharged from the clip. By varying the inclination of the flange e with relation to the face of the spring the force required to disengage the cartridge from the clip can be graduated as desired. With the flange e at substantially the inclination shown in the drawings a pressure substantially equivalent to about ten pounds pressure is required to push the group of cartridges out of the clip; the greater the angle of inclination-of the clip to the face of the spring the greater the power Eequired to push the cartridges out past the an e.

oil neither the spring nor the body of the clip are there any end projections or points to catch in the fabric of the belt or clothing.

The flange itself fits fairly closely upon the portion of the head of the cartridge which it encompasses and at its ends merges imperceptibly into the sides of the spring, so that practically no outside material can engage it. The device as a whole is very simple and inexpensive, and its parts can be made with ease by means of suitable dies.

What I claim herein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The hereinbefore-described cartridge-clip consisting of the sheet-metal body A, and the spring B, having rounded ends bordered each by an outwardly and downwardly inclined crescent-shaped flange e, which is of a 10 contour to embrace the rim of the cartridge adjacent to it, and decreases in width toward its ends, which merge into the sides of the spring, substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.

In testimony whereof I afiiX my signature I 5 in presence of two witnesses.

ANSON MILLS. Witnesses:

W. LEE HELMs, GEO. W. REA. 

